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Shadow War vs World of Warcraft

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Status

ACTIVE
ACTIVE

Released

January 2012 · 15 years ago
November 2004 · 22 years ago

Daily players

No population data
810 – 380k

Estimated players

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592.4kDown 0.2%

Available on

  • Windows
  • Windows
  • macOS

Player activity

Smoothed estimated players over time.

Shadow WarWorld of Warcraft

Shadow War

Average monthly estimated players
MonthEstimated playersChange
October 2026——
September 2026——
August 2026——
July 2026——

World of Warcraft

Average monthly estimated players
MonthEstimated playersChange
October 2026~590.5k
September 2026~590.7kUp 3.9%
August 2026~568.6kUp 14%
July 2026~500.1k—

Community breakdown

Steam, Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and YouTube activity for both games, side by side.

Discord members

Shadow War
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World of Warcraft
177.7kUp 5.8%

World of Warcraft currently has 177,703 Discord members; no comparable data is tracked for Shadow War.

Reddit members

Shadow War
—
World of Warcraft
3.2mUp 1.2%

World of Warcraft currently has 3,199,400 subreddit members; no comparable data is tracked for Shadow War.

Twitch viewers

Shadow War
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World of Warcraft
114kUp 18%

World of Warcraft currently has 114,003 live Twitch viewers; no comparable data is tracked for Shadow War.

YouTube subscribers

Shadow War
—
World of Warcraft
2mUp 2.1%

World of Warcraft currently has 1,980,000 YouTube subscribers; no comparable data is tracked for Shadow War.

How these estimates are made

Shadow War

Not enough data collected to estimate this game yet.

World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft is estimated to have 810 – 380k players a day. Around 130k – 13m accounts have played it in total. No Steam data is published for this game, so the range is modelled from the size of its Discord, Reddit, Twitch, YouTube and app-store communities. It is a rough band rather than a measurement.

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